George H. Nettleton (November 13, 1831 – March 26, 1896) was an American railroad pioneer and civil engineer from Chicopee, Massachusetts.
He organized the first Kansas City Missouri Stockyards, built the Livestock Exchange building, and served as president of the Fort Scott & Memphis Railway.
[1] Nettleton left Massachusetts to study civil engineering and mathematics in Troy, New York at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
After a year of studying, and his family struggling to afford the school, he returned home.
Upon completion of the New Haven and New London line, Chief Engineer Josiah Hunt hand-picked Nettleton to head west to work on the Terra Haute & Alton Railroad.